{"product_id":"nobody-a-hymn-to-the-sea-9781324021780","title":"Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e, her unforgettable transformation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\u003e, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey--a poet abandoned on a stony island--and the sea that surrounds him. Familiar voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes, and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with all of Oswald's work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but here the language takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular, and liquid. Reading \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\u003e is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water--fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOswald, Alice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eight books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50679014195474,"sku":"9781324021780","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bc2484ca-155d-430f-91e0-5352db021e06.jpg?v=1733899922","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nobody-a-hymn-to-the-sea-9781324021780","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}